Health: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to develop a national strategy to integrate health and housing services; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of such a strategy on delays in hospital discharges.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act will require local authorities to produce supported housing strategies, which will assist local authorities and partner organisations to deliver supported housing, including for people being discharged from hospital.
The Better Care Fund (BCF) policy framework for 2025/26 requires National Health Service integrated care boards and local authorities to agree to a joint plan to deliver the objectives of the BCF. The objectives include that local areas must agree to plans that achieve more timely and effective discharge from hospital. It is a national condition of the BCF that the development of joint plans must involve joint working with local housing authorities.
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